In BSEU conducted a planned evacuation training

A single security day is held throughout Belarus every fourth Thursday in September - this year it is the 24th. The correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency visited the exercises at the Belarusian State Economic University and tells how it was.

In BSEU, about two thousand students and teachers simultaneously left the classroom. At 10:00 in the first and third buildings of the university a fire alarm went off. The evacuation took a few minutes and went without panic.

First Vice-Rector of BSEU, Chairman of the Commission on Emergency Situations Tatyana Sadovskaya called the workout successful, but noted: there is a reason to think.

- The safety of our employees and students is an absolute priority and responsibility of everyone: the manager, the employee, and the student. As part of today’s unified security day, we are working out algorithms for actions, evacuation, collection, and notification. The main thing is not just to formally follow the instructions, but to live everything, pass everything with your feet. Evacuated quickly enough, despite the fact that not all freshmen know where the emergency exits. We conduct fire training throughout the year, closely interact with the ROCHS of the Factory District, so such measures are systematic for us, Sadovskaya said.

After the evacuation, interactive platforms of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Health were deployed at the main building.

At the location of the Ministry of Health showed how to conduct cardiopulmonary resuscitation and indirect heart massage. There was a defibrillator nearby - you could figure out how it worked and ask any questions.

- Every person who sees a victim in an emergency must first assess his condition and call an ambulance. In case of fire there is smoke, so it is necessary to take a person out of this zone so that there is no carbon monoxide poisoning and burns from the flames. Now, even in driving schools, the rules of first aid are studied during training, many universities also have training cycles. And you need to have basic first aid skills regardless of the profession, said Oleg Tyushnikov, head of the anesthesiology and intensive care department of the 4th City Children's Clinical Hospital.

At the site of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, students tried on protective helmets, held fire extinguishers in their hands.

The location of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was no less interactive: a service dog worked, everyone was also given to try on a bulletproof vest and helmet. The most daring tried to hit the bulletproof vest with a baton to understand what it really was.

- It’s always cool to wear a helmet and interact with a dog. But it is really important to understand that this is not just that in case of an emergency it is very important to gather and not get confused. Therefore, such events are very disciplined, shared BSEU student Vladislav.

Photo by Elizabeth Davidovskaya